Scoops at Rocky Point Ice Cream

A Steveston gelato shop with flavours like Hong Kong milk tea and miso caramel, steps from the boardwalk.

West-side favourite churning honey-lavender, salted-caramel, and rotating seasonal flavours from local dairy, a block off the Kitsilano-Point Grey stretch of West 4th.

Downtown's chocolaterie-patisserie on Alberni: thick drinking chocolate, a macaron case that looks like jewellery, and cheap enough to be completely spontaneous.

A thirty-year Dundarave corner bakery where the butter smell hits before the door, and the cinnamon buns sell out before noon.

Vancouver's beloved small-batch ice cream in reusable glass jars, a short stroll from the Olympic Village seawall.

A pastel Parisian parlour making obscenely rich creme-anglaise ice cream, where sharing a jar counts as a whole date.

A layered Uji-matcha parfait engineered for two spoons and one 'that bite was mine'.

An actual world-champion gelatiere turning out four-litre artisan batches a block from English Bay, ideal after a seawall stroll.

A bright Alexandra Road patisserie where a Mont Blanc and a chiffon cake photograph better than either of you.

The only place on earth with 238 flavours of gelato under one roof, which turns dessert into a genuinely fun decision-making adventure.

Four breweries on one walkable block in Port Moody: start hoppy at Yellow Dog, end by the fire pit at Brave.

Farm-to-cone gelato at the water's edge on the quiet south shore of False Creek, best eaten on the move with the seawall as your table.

Hop-forward Brewers Row craft beer, a Space Armadillo DIPA, and an al pastor taco menu that nobody expected but everybody needs.

West Coast seafood and a marina-view patio at the toe of Horseshoe Bay, two minutes from the ferry ramp.